Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Boston Joint Board Records, 1926-1979
13 boxes (7 manuscript boxes, 1 half manuscript box, 4 flat oversize boxes) (8 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 2
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Boston Joint Board Records
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Boston Joint Board Records, 1926-1979
13 boxes (7 manuscript boxes, 1 half manuscript box, 4 flat oversize boxes) (8 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 2
Abstract:
Joint Board in Boston, Massachusetts, that formed at the beginning of the ACWA and included local unions that covered the range of ethnic groups and trades that comprised the men's clothing industry. Records include detailed minutes, abundant contracts and price lists, scrapbooks, and photographs that reveal the Joint Board's important role in local and state Democratic politics, its support of a wide range of social causes, its decisions to strike, and its reaction to the decline of the men's clothing industry in New England. Leader Joseph Salerno is well represented in the records.
Terms of Access and Use: The collection is open for research. Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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